For more than a century, a cluster of alabaster jars from the burial of Tutankhamun sat in museum cases as some of the most puzzling objects from the boy king’s tomb. Now a new wave of scientific ...

GIZA, Egypt — They’re the crown jewels of the Grand Egyptian Museum — two galleries devoted to the ancient pharaoh Tutankhamun. Showcasing more than 5,300 objects from the young king’s tomb, including ...

For more than a century, a cluster of alabaster containers from the burial of King Tut has taunted archaeologists with a simple but stubborn question: what, exactly, did these elegant jars once hold.

Thousands of visitors streamed through the Grand Egyptian Museum on Tuesday as almost the entire collection of King Tutankhamun's treasures -- over 4,500 artefacts -- was displayed together for the ...

The golden funerary mask of King Tutankhamun is displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo A man stands by ancient stone sarcophaguses displayed at the Egyptian Museum After nearly a century in the ...

Cairo's newest attraction is the Grand Egyptian Museum, a modern testament to one of the world's oldest civilizations. Jane Pauley reports on the opening of the museum, whose collection includes ...

The new museum will show all of the artefacts discovered by Howard Carter and his team in the tomb of Tutankhamun Near one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - the Great Pyramid of Khufu at ...

The certified reproduction of the King Tutankhamun's gilded inner coffin from art collector Giovanni Amin's collection is on exhibit in the Louisiana Art & Science Museum's exhibit, 'Discoveries on ...

Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was ...